ISTANBUL - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is rife and ...

Better language skills help refugees to become more self-reliant in Turkey for which UNHCR continues to work together with its partners as well as its donors. Thanks to the financial and technical ...

Five-year-old Mehdi Rahimi watches his favorite cartoons on TRT Çocuk, a Turkish channel for children that his family gets on satellite TV in their home in Fatmayi, a village just outside of Baku.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that, starting immediately, Turkish students would begin studying the Ottoman language in school. Erdogan defended the move by explaining that ...

Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal ...

Germany’s new Green party new leader Cem Özdemir has said that schools should offer more Turkish language lessons, daily Bild reported on Monday. “German must always be the most important language for ...

The association of the Turkish language with the Turkish state and its politics makes many wary of acknowledging the indelible place of Turkish in the lives of Ottoman Armenians and their diasporan ...

Turkish-Cypriot voters cast their ballots in the constitutional referendum in the northern part of the divided city of Nicosia, Cyprus, 6 April 2017. [[EPA/ Katia Christodoulou]] In early 2016, Cyprus ...